“I really thought it was everybody else’s stupid imagination and that I was absolutely fine; that there was nothing wrong with me.” Carol (* name changed to protect identity) shrugs her shoulders and smiles across at me. She has agreed to meet up with me in a Leeds café to tell her story; a story of the destructive tornado formed from the toxic cocktail of low self-esteem and alcohol abuse that has raged through most of her teens and caused despair to her and her family until she was 39 years old. “Not drinking is my vehicle to move forward.” Today, she hasn’t taken aRead More →